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Ragnar Frisch’s Great Idea

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The rousing editorial of Joseph Schumpeter was not the only immortal contribution to the first edition of Econometrica. Also in the volume was a paper by Ragnar Frisch and his agricultural economist colleague F.W. Waugh that both postulated and solved a problem that is both somewhat unique and ubiquitous in financial and economic data.

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Read, C. (2016). Ragnar Frisch’s Great Idea. In: The Econometricians. Great Minds in Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-34137-2_25

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